Sunday, October 18, 2015

Seeing is Believing

So
who cares about going vegan? What’s the point of it; why not just eat what you
feel like eating, when you feel like eating it?

Going
into a bit about me, why am I vegan? All vegans have their own reasons, be it
for health, ethical, moral, cultural, religious, or dietary reasons, we all do
it for ourselves one reason or another. For me personally, it’s because I don’t
have to eat meat, you don’t have to kill animals, you don’t need another being
in order to survive. I haven’t always been vegan, about ten years now almost,
so what made me go vegan? What led me to this passionate path of compassion, of
which I hope others will join me?

I do want to preface that the
following videos are disturbing and hard to watch, but please do watch with an
open mind, and an open heart.

I want to follow this with your
first feeling right after the videos ended. Why do you feel this way? Did you
understand it? Was it new to you? It’s difficult to think that the chicken or
steak on your plate has been thoroughly tortured before making it to your
stomach. It’s a cruel industry that has done an unbelievable job at keeping
these things behind closed doors and cages.

It’s hard to believe what you
can’t see, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t true, or that they don’t happen.
I get that many vegans seem to preach their lifestyle, but there’s nothing
wrong with sharing your knowledge and opening these doors to others who would
otherwise remain oblivious and unaware.

This post isn’t to
be that cliché lifestyle preaching vegan, but more to only shed light on what
we can’t see, and to bring to light these dark corners of this industry.